Danny Yee, an Australian whose recommendations have been good in the past, has this:
Inspector Singh Investigates by Shamini Flint
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul
The Singapore School of Villainy
A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree
A Curious Indian Cadaver
A Calamitous Chinese Killing
Inspector Singh is a Sikh working for the Singapore police, whose investigations so far have taken place in Malaysia, Bali (Indonesia), Singapore, Cambodia, India and China. The series is tied together by Singh's character and the foreign settings, in which he usually ends up working unofficially, with some help from elements of the local police...
"What makes these novels a success, however, are their individual stories. These are entertaining and well-paced, with a bit of suspense and some surprises, and they have a good cast of characters — in almost all of them families and family connections play key roles. And Flint may not have literary pretensions, but she writes straightforward and effective prose... "
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